Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-26
The Last Act OF the Memorable Hay mar
ket Tragedy--Quiet and Orderly.
The Services at the Cemetery Mainly
SOcialistic Harangues and
Loud Outhed OratOry.
Schwab Washing Dishes and Fielden
Pounding Stone.
A Quiet Funeral.

colo Hat earth, live unseen, sOulleSs
figures, fleeing in death as from the
one great Being for whom alone there
there can be no law, found a hiding
place tonight in the darkness at the
most desolate spot on the prairie's
wide expanse. The five gastly
figures were symbols of attempted de-
struction to the law--they were the
five dead anarchists-Spies, Parsons,
Fischer, Engel, and Louis Lingg.
Probably half a million peo-
pie in the city Of their terrible
crime saw the last public preparations
for the final flight to the tomb. Scarce
ly more than half the number expected,
1000, men and $50 women aided in
the city by forming in procession be
hind them. Ten thousand people were
present in the barest, emptiest grave
yard adjacent to Chicago when the
! corpses at last were hidden.
MUTTERED CURSES AND BITTER MUIR
MURs
and a cry of Throttle the law!" &C.
companied the parting words spoken
over the five ~lifeless bodies. 1t was al
most to a second the exact time that
forty-eight hours previous, the scafold,
drop fell with August Spies and
his comrades, that to-day the blacklist
of hearses drew up at the door of
his relatives. Mere peculiar still WAS
the fact that the hearse was just ready
70 start at the precise moment CORE
spending with the announcement at the
gallows that Spies had ceased to breathe.
This was the beginning OF the obse-
quies. The scene is at the extreme
corner of the city and the route taken
resembled nothing so much as a mon
ster black snake stretching right to the
center of Chicago and protruding out
and beyond the southwestern angle.
Serried lines of blackness were formed
of human beings wedged together in
almost a single continuous whole.
Off from Milwaukee avenue Spies
lived in a little oasis of well-to-do
Americans and Germ ans, willie the
others entombed to-day had places Of
abode scattered along at intervals Of
five or six blocks, close to the same
thorOughfare, but in the midst OF the
NEST ignorant and uncouth classes of
Chicago's foreign-born population.
About four thousand persons, most e
them neignbors of Spies, were congre-
gated on the steps apd sidewalk of the
block in which Spies lived, when the
time for departure had arrived. As at
other houses where the anarchists
bodies lay. a constant stream of MOURN
ers and of curious sight seors had been
since daylight pouring through the
building viewing the livid remains or
gazing at the weeping relatives. When
the forty.elght hours anniversary of
the scaffold drop had come, and the
sombre hearse was standing patient at
the curb, the
TALL, STATELY FORM OF CAPT. BLACK
appeared, leading Nina Van Zandt.
She was pale but calm, and wore an air
Of added dignity.
MEMORABLE SCENES RECALLED.
The most striking view of the pro-
cession was obtained at the corner Of
Lake and Desplaines streets, for it
brought so wildly to mind the scene Of
May 4, 1886, when the bomb vas
thrown. 1t was just las when the
head Of the line reached the depot. At
the corner is the saloon and hall of
Charles Zepf, an anarchist. 1t was in
this saloon that Parsons took his wife
and children after he had finished his
speech at the Haymarket and
where they sat when the bomb
was thrown. Two hundred feet
south of tia corner was the
place where stood the wagon from
which Spies and his comrades deliv-
cred their harangues and counseled the
throttliDg of the law. And here, too,
was the alley from which the Kissing
and fatal bomb was hurled into the
ranks of tie police. A little further
south was the spot where the missile
fell and did such awful destruction.
Was it by accident or design that the
parade wound around this historic
cornerP was a question asked by hun
dreds. And the line of march took the
marching army of sympathizers directly
EAST Grief's hall, in the basement of
which a group Of anarchists used to
hold nightly conferences and instruct
each other in the use of dynamite and
practice the manual Of arms.
THE FEATURE OF THE AFFAIR
was the hearse of August Spies.
There were no nodding black plumes
on it but the top was so covered with
floral tribute that nothing else could be
seen. Inside was the richly covered
casket. Standing out in bold relief
against the black broadcloth Of the cof-
fin. was thrown a great sash of red silk.
1t was all the more because no flowers
had been placed inside to interfere with